The year was 2012 and the Nats were quietly playing their way to their first >.500 season since 2003...when they were the Montreal Expos. Fans in the nation's capital felt that this could finally be the year the team made a statement besides "lolol DAE first in war, first in peace, last in the NL East."
But it wasn't an easy road.
Taking over ownership in 2006, one year after the team had moved to DC, Ted Lerner and president Stan Kasten started out with a hodgepodge mix of players playing in horrific national tragedy RFK Stadium.
While the initial reception to the new team was warm, and the 2005 team finished with an 81-81 record, it was all downhill from there.
Despair: a story in numbers.
| Year | Record |
|---|---|
| 2006 | 71-91 |
| 2007 | 73-89 |
| 2008 | 59-102 |
| 2009 | 59-103 |
| 2010 | 69-93 |
The Nats remained perpetual cellar-dwellers. While Lerner and Kasten played a long game, investing heavily in the farm system and gaining two #1 draft picks (Strasburg in '09 and Harper in '10), it was hard to root for a team whose entire time in DC had been spent in mediocrity.
It is important to understand that the culture of DC makes for a particularly difficult time of establishing a fan base. The city is a transitory spot for a lot of people, whether those on short-term diplomatic assignments, hopeful post-grad students who are going to change the world, or lawyers who spend a few years making their fortune on K Street, only to get a gig at a small consulting firm in Manhattan a few years later. Those who live there on a more permanent basis have struggled through a long history of disappointing teams. The Wizards were a joke in the mid-2000s, the Redskins weren't much better, and the Capitals were only known for failing to accomplish anything in the playoffs.
I myself grew up in Washington going to the occasional Orioles game, was delighted to hear that DC was getting a team again, and then slowly resigned myself to the fact that all of our teams were clearly cursed. It's easier to follow a shitty team when it's a storied franchise, when there have been bright spots in its past. That's why there are still so many diehard Redskins fans in the area despite how long it'll be before they can entertain the thought of a deep playoffs run. I still went to Nats games, but without really knowing what it felt like to follow a good baseball team, it was hard to muddle through yea
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Apparently their music was not audible in their noise cancellation headphones
Corporations love having the ability to use the government as a means of maintaining their power. For example, there's been some discussion about the $15 minimum wage raise. And companies like Walmart and Amazon may agree to raising the wages or even paying more in corporate tax, but only because they know small businesses will suffer and not be able to take the heat. They lobby for their own interests, they fund movements and thinktanks that support the same ideas they have. Even if they make a deal with the government, most companies use that a deal as an opportunity to be cheap and give consumers shitty products or service or whatever because they have no morals. My city could make a deal with a company like At&T to provide more affordable service and wifi for everyone. But now the wifi is garbage or something because the company is being cheap, and for some reason its my local governments fault for trying to provide people with something more inexpensive.
So why would the people who own these corporations agree to a freer market? This same logic is used in the housing market. People who own houses are gonna support policies that maintain or raise the value of their house, making it impossible for newcomers to afford housing in the first place. What incentive do home owners have to not support those kinds of policies besides being morally good? And when profit is on the line, there is no real moral good.
Corporations are the root of so much evil in this world. And unlike the supports of capitalism, leftists want to remove that evil. The people on the right, want to keep that evil, but somehow use it and expect things to work out for everyone? Its silly. Corporations will not comply and you wouldn't either if you owned one. The people at the top will never let a real free market happen and it is pointless to even consider that they will. Socialism is more realistic at this point
Hey everyone,
I’m an essential worker. I work at an online retailers warehouse in Mississauga. My employer does not offer paid sick days, and I’ve been receiving messages of positive covid cases in my workplace since Covid came to Canada. Sometimes more than 1 or 2 cases a week.
The government of Ontario is going to compensate my employer for the sick days I receive. They are being rewarded for endangering the lives of their employees, and the people who are put at risk through the spread of infection in the community.
Meanwhile the company I work for has made record breaking profits throughout the pandemic. It is unfair that people like me have to pay for Doug fords sick days, and then our tax dollars are used to compensate mega corporations.
These giant corporations can afford to pay employees for sick days, but they won’t until there are laws passed to force them to do the right thing.
Edit: Some people have left comments in this thread stating that the paid sick days will be funded by the WSIB through employer premiums. This is false.
Source: “The program will be administered by the WSIB and the provincial government will reimburse employers 100 per cent of the employee’s wage for up to $200 a day.”
https://globalnews.ca/news/7816330/covid-ontario-paid-sick-days-announcement/
A faction that solely exists to exploit Rimworlds, harvest all useful resources and ship them offworld for a profit.
The bulk of their colonists would be miners, constructors and crafters, while a small exclusive group are mercenaries and merchants who are great at social. They're a crafty people who utilize powerful defenses and traps around their bases and while the don't excel at fighting, their equipment is at least at industrial level.
You can befriend them and they will reward you for delievering raw resources and raiding other factions on the Rimworld, using you as proxy. Enough treasure may even buy you a ticket offworld.
Or fight them, but beware. They love the use of drop-pods and mortars and turned siege-warfare into an artform. Chemical warfare and the use of fire and explosives is common and if they cannot penetrate your defenses they won't hesitate to use dirty bombs to ruin the fertility on your map to force you out.
Does that sound like something you'd like to see?
They made sure to tell you that this could TOTALLY happen to you if youre brave/smart/pretty/strong enough to do it.
But in reality they shouted this shit from the top of their penthouses after they went through and shackled our parents to their jobs and then never gave them the money to actually survive. OH DONT FORGET TO JUST SAVE RIGHT GUYS????? INTERST RATES ARE BARELY UNDER 2% BUT YEAH LEMME SAVE TO SURVIVE.
BUT you cant even save because they set up most of the world around the idea that you live paycheck to paycheck. Short anything that helped us, calls on their friends, and anyone who paid them enough they would do one or the other to whoever they wanted.
Fuck these people. Fuck the Hedge Funds.
These greedy fucking psychos clear entire forests to make room for shopping malls, they fill the oceans with trash and oil, they poison local water supplies, they fill the atmosphere with toxic fumes from their factories and private jets, they're regularly eradicating thousands of different animal species', etc.
Then they jump on television and social media and convince the lemmings that it's all their fault for using plastic bags or driving a vehicle to their dead-end slave-job lmao.
And most people eat it up. Including this subreddit.
"We’re addicts for consumption, they know this, and can reward and punish us accordingly for our habits."
"White employees are told to "work through feelings of guilt, shame, and defensiveness to understand what is beneath them and what needs to be healed." They must "listen with empathy [to] Black colleagues" and "not question or debate Black colleagues’ lived experience."
